The 9-11 commemoration was subdued, with no speechifying by politicians, a good sign that the US is finally moving on. Except, of course, that we remain at war in Afghanistan…
A 13-year-old cyclist is in critical condition after being struck by a van in Brooklyn’s Borough Park. Police say “no criminality is suspected,” apparently without irony.
Both parties represent global empire and corporate rule. But it is also clear that this election is turning into a referendum on whether the USA should be a white republic.
"Leftists" in the West are waxing paranoid about how the Syrian revolutionaries are a bunch of jihadists. But if the West intervenes in Mali, they will likely be rooting for jihadists—again.
While the Democrats are partying in Charlotte, the drone war in Yemen has gone into “overdrive,” leaving scores dead in recent days—to little notice in the US media.
With Tehran revealed to be supplying Damascus with arms through Iraqi airspace, events in Syria could be propelling the US towards unprecedented military commitments.
Obama capitulates at the last minute and puts wording in the Democratic platform calling for an undivided Jerusalem. Now who exactly is getting “thrown under the bus”?
Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi died without having to answer for his war crimes—he remained in the good graces of the West to the end, getting a free ride from the world media.
Workers arrested at South Africa's Marikana mine have been charged with the murder of 34 of their colleagues shot by police, under an apartheid-era "common purpose" law.
It turns out that the ringleader in the supposed "anarchist" terror conspiracy hatched by privates at Fort Stewart served as a page at the 2008 GOP convention in St. Paul.
The Melkite Catholic archbishop of Aleppo flees Syria after his offices are sacked by jihadists—as the US State Department establishes an Istanbul office to aid the Syrian rebels.
Security forces in Bahrain used tear gas and rubber bullets after protesters hurled Molotov cocktails at a police station, in what official media called a “terror attack.”
